Hi guys newbie here, looking to get into the trucking biz. There's no shortage of jobs in this field, but I'm a lazy guy and I don't care for the lumping aspect. How hard is it to get Linehaul jobs (I'm more of a night owl anyways)? What about something like driving a dump truck instead of a rig?

I have some experience driving straight trucks. A few years ago I had my Class B permit and worked for a Restaurant supply company running some ridiculous routes (boss was insane!) and I just couldn't put up with it any longer as I worked my butt off running his crazy routes. Had to load trucks as well lol. That's A LOT of work to pull orders and palletize, load truck, run routes and deliver and put up with customers that don't care that the longer they make me wait, the longer my route takes etc.

Anyways, I've come to the conclusion retail work sucks! Too much work and too little pay. Well I figure if I'm not going to get rich working, then I'd rather take the route with less manual labor (not saying trucking isn't demanding just a different kind of "labor").

I'm going to SAGE school soon to talk about their programs and the likelihood of job placement and equipment I'd be best suited for. Going to train for the whole shabang! I figure a class A gets me driving anything basically, so what I want to know is, how hard is it to get Linehaul work dropping trailers from dock to dock or driving dump trucks from site to site for example.

What I really mean is, I want my job to be 95% driving basically. No stopping here and there and picking a little here going somewhere else and picking up more etc.

I'm sure LTL guys get more moeny but that's OKAY by me. For now, I just want to drive and not a taxi lol, that's way too dangerous with all the nuts out there.

Heck, I'd even drive a garbage truck as long as I didn't have to get out of the truck too much lol. I'm lazy I admit but I think I can handle trucking if I can get the right kind of job. I can handle occasional manual labor but all the time PLUS driving and putting up with traffic sucks!

You're thoughts? Advice? Criticism?